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From Third Month, 2010:
I am able to approach the Buddhas [at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka] barefoot and undisturbed, my feed in wet grass and sand. Then the silence of the extraordinary faces. The great smiles. Huge and subtle.
Filled with every possibility, questioning nothing, knowing everything, rejecting nothing, the peace...that has seen through every question without trying to discredit anyone or anything—without refutation—without establishing some other argument.
For the doctrinaire, the mind that needs well established positions, such peace, such silence, can be frightening.
Looking at these figures I was suddenly, almost forcibly, jerked clean out of the habitual, half-tied vision of things, and an inner clearness, clarity, as if exploding from the rocks themselves, became evident and obvious....
The thing about all this is that there is no puzzle, no problem and really no mystery. All problems are resolved and everything is clear, simply because what matters is clear. The rock, all matter, all life is charges with dharmakaya... everything is emptiness and everything is compassion.
—Thomas Merton
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1988, p.233
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From Second Month, 2010:
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| From First Month, 2010:
Why All This Talk?
Why all this talk of the Beloved,
Music and dancing,
And
Liquid ruby-light we can lift in a cup?
Because it is low tide,
A very low tide in this age
And around most hearts.
We are exquisite coral reefs
Dying when exposed to strange
Elements.
God is the wine-ocean we crave—
We miss
Flowing in and out of our
Pores.
—Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c.1320-1389)
translated by Daniel Ladinsky
The Subject Tonight is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
North Myrtle Beach, SC: Pumpkin House Press, 1996, p.7
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